CBS News President Andrew Heyward is a
BIG
BLOWFISH
Posted on 01/16/2005 1:05:06 PM PST by kattracks
CBS News turned over its entire "Face the Nation" broadcast on Sunday to inveterate Bush-basher Ted Kennedy, after refusing a White House request that they also include a Republican to rebut Kennedy's bloviations.
"The White House was happy to put Dan Bartlett or somebody else on that program and CBS said, 'Thank you, No,'" reported Brit Hume on "Fox News Sunday." The CBS snub comes just a week after the network promised Bartlett, who recently moved from Communications Director to the White House counsel's job, that they'd stop skewing their coverage against the president.
According to Broadcasting & Cable, CBS News President Andrew Heyward traveled to D.C. and personally assured Bartlett that "neither CBS News nor [Dan] Rather had a vendetta against the White House."
"From here on out [CBS] would do everything it could to be fair and balanced,” he reportedly pledged.
Sorry. Pressed agin because the posting was slow - My bad.
Who was the boob on with Schieffer who helped to interview Kennedy? Was it Balz of the Washington Post?
He asked one question that couldn't have been more of a Dem talking point than if he were Terry McAuliffe. He said "Alberto Gonzales wrote the memos that led to the Abu Ghraib abuse. Do you intend to vote to confirm him as AG?"
If I'm not mistaken, the question wasn't along the lines "some people feel the memos might have led to Abu Ghraib." No, he stated it as an absolute, established fact.
I couldn't help but feel pure rage at the unfairness and bias.
See-BS is growing even more nakedly defiant of the Bush Administration all the time. Are they looking to become the US affiliate of Al-Jazeera? Doesn't that mean the employees at See-BS wil all have to take Berlitz courses in Arabic?
It appears CBS is actually going FURTHER to the left.
Prediction: At this rate, it will be actively championing outright communism in 3 months.
And the scorpion said "It's my nature."
I'm enjoying watching CBS self-destruct.
I'm laughing so hard I'm afraid I'll hurt myself. CBS claiming to be unbiased? And I'm Princess Diana.
It would have been nice if CBS had admitted that Thornburg was their attorney long before the investigation into Rathergate began. So much for an "independent" investigation.
The RATS are reduced to Ted Kennedy talking points. The left is in deep trouble.
He might have meant it. But after the meeting he caught hell from the rest of the press flack community who lambasted him for thinking that being fair and balanced was appropriate. So I suspect he has backed off so he can continue going to the fancy parties.
I won't defend CBS but I'll bet it was Fat Teddy who nixed having a WH rep there.
What galls me is that pundits for the mainstream media insist that there is no bias. Obviously delusional.
I'm trying to convince my liberal friend in NE Ohio that there's a liberal bias in the media and he says it's all hype; it's not true...I just emailed him the NewsMax clip above. Still prob. won't convince him.
(he voted for Kerry...bet he's glad to know his state put W over the top. Thank you Buckeye State!)
CBS News President Andrew Heyward is a
BIG
BLOWFISH
My sympathies. I've had a similar experience and decided, after years of frustration, to let it go. My friend and I now rarely communicate and my frustration level is much reduced.
You are right and it is time to play hardball with their license over "Rather-gate."
Good. They still don't get it.
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